Chapter 206: Fanfeng Garment

Visarous re-entered Arad; regardless of the logout location, he would return to the town, or more precisely, to the inn opened by Seria, every time he logged in.

“Today is also a day full of hope.”

“Great Adventurer, it seems you’re going out on an adventure again. I will always pray and bless you from behind!”

Walked out of the inn.

This is the street of Huttonmar, the capital of the Duchy.

The rising sunshine shone through the gaps of the white buildings on both sides of the street, covered in green plants, casting mottled shadows that danced on the travelers passing by, giving a feeling of dreamlike peace and vibrant energy.

This nation, not too large in scale and population, is always full of vitality like this, with adventurers from all over the world gathering here, and various nations and even various races coexisting peacefully.

The clanging sounds of the blacksmith’s hammering, the rumbling sounds of magic machines operating, the shouts and calls of small vendors, all can be heard everywhere, with rich details of life in every corner.

At this moment.

Standing here.

It is not the Lich Visarous.

But the Ghost Swordsman Visarous.

It has only been nine days since he came to the Arad Continent to adventure after contacting the Secret Realm of Miracle City.

Visarous had completely immersed himself in it, and the Lich would sometimes feel extremely bewildered… With his own strength, status, and experience, why would he be so attracted to the Secret Realm constructed by the Lord using spiritual power?

He thought about it.

He concluded three reasons.

First, the charm of the Arad Continent’s own foundation.

This world’s elements are both familiar and strange, containing a very complex magic system, as well as very profound knowledge and higher-level power, which is difficult to resist for any knowledge-hungry Lich.

Although the time to explore this world is not long, various clues all show that the Arad world is by no means simple.

Not only are there powerful and mysterious existences like Great Mage Mar, but also the unknown lands of the Heavenly Realm and the Demon Realm, and a powerful existence called an Apostle.

Naturally, it can stimulate the desire to explore.

Second, the world’s atmosphere is realistic, detailed, and immersive, plus the feeling of experiencing a second life in almost a new life.

The culture, history, politics, military, etc. of the Arad world.

Is also very complete and without any sense of incongruity.

It makes people feel strongly immersed.

Visarous had been a Lich for several hundred years.

Wherever he went in the past, he would be feared or dreaded.

Although he possessed great strength and status, he could never get rid of the various strange gazes brought about by the label of his identity, and no one would ever be able to treat a Lich as a normal person.

And that’s indeed the case.

Liches are a group of evil, extreme, ambitious fellows who stop at nothing to pursue knowledge or longevity.

Although Visarous himself didn’t care, if he could change his identity, change his perspective, or even change a world, it would be a very fresh and interesting thing for him.

When appearing on the Arad Continent as a Ghost Swordsman, he got rid of all the identities of the real world, eliminated the barriers of the real world, and could even adventure together with Artus and Nancy Liya.

This feeling is indeed very novel and interesting.

Third, of course, is the attraction and fun of the Secret Realm mechanism.

The design of the “dungeon battlefield” of the Arad Continent is praised by the adventurers as the Secret Realm within the Secret Realm.

Countless small Secret Realms are stuffed into one large Secret Realm.

Such design innovation and powerful resource integration and material optimization capabilities were unprecedented in Visarous’s thousand years, how could it not be astonishing?

This is definitely a genius production!

Adventurers can repeatedly and quickly challenge various areas of Gran Forest, and each challenge can directly reach the target area, saving the long and repetitive travel required to enter the forest every time.

The combat is efficient.

And closely connected with the plot.

In addition to the design of small Secret Realms.

The rich level system, equipment system, and networked social attributes, on the basis that the Arad Continent is already very interesting, has also added cultivation and real-world vanity comparison, so that the Secret Realm rewards and achievements can be accumulated into real assets.

……

This is only a part of the advantages of the Arad Continent.

But it has already been able to kill the Eternal Night Forest, and even all the high-level dungeon Secret Realms that Visarous has known, it’s no wonder that even he is deeply attracted and can’t stop.

Not long after.

According to the method provided by the Black Stone Hammer King.

Visarous triggered the main story of “Dark Thunder Ruin.”

He first went to the Ghost Swordsman Dojo in the backstreet area of Huttonmar to find Mentor GSD to upgrade skills, and then he was going to pass the Site of Grace on the large map to teleport directly to the Gran Forest entrance by fast travel.

The fast travel function.

Definitely wasn’t in the original work.

Because the video game scene itself has been miniaturized.

There are only a few representative scenes in the whole Huttonmar, and it doesn’t take much time to walk from one picture to another, but the Arad Continent in Miracle City is different, and the whole Huttonmar is completely built.

Although the city is not large in scale, it also has hundreds of thousands of people.

It takes at least half an hour to walk from the city center to the outside of the city, and it takes an hour by horse from the outside of the city to near the entrance of Gran Forest. If you have to run back and forth every time you enter and exit, it’s too wasteful of time.

Therefore, Qi Ji arranged many Sites of Grace in various places on the Arad Continent.

As long as the adventurer activates the blessing, they can use a small amount of gold coins for fast travel, which can greatly shorten the travel time, thus ensuring the authenticity and immersion of the game scenes, and also improving the rhythm and experience of the game.

But just when Visarous walked out of the Ghost Swordsman Dojo to the Blacksmith Shop to repair his equipment.

“Damn it, my hammer, was lost in the deepest part of Gran Forest. Whoever has a way to help me bring it back will be greatly rewarded!”

An old blacksmith with a pale face, a white beard, and a small stature like a Dwarf Race, begged several native adventurers with a look of anxiety.

These adventurers are all natives of the Arad Continent. When they learned that they were going to enter the deepest part of Gran Forest, they all looked at each other and showed a difficult expression, and finally rejected the old blacksmith’s commission.

Visarous’s heart moved.

The old blacksmith is Xinda, the most famous Forging Master in Huttonmar.

He seemed to have encountered trouble, and this should be a good quest. Getting along well with this old fellow, maybe he could get a discount on repairing equipment in the future.

Arad gold coins are currently also a very scarce resource.

Adventurers can exchange a little bit of Miracle Coins, but in order to ensure the balance and experience of the Secret Realm, the amount that each person can exchange is not too much, not to mention that Miracle Coins are a more advanced and equally scarce resource.

So Arad gold coins should be saved if possible.

And repairing equipment is one of the biggest daily expenses.

Visarous then took the initiative to find the old blacksmith to express his intention to him.

“Adventurer, are you going to explore the Dark Thunder Ruin in the deepest part of Gran Forest?”

“Correct.”

“Great!”

Xinda was overjoyed and immediately said, “Please, by all means, help the old man, find the hammer left by my master, and I will surely reward you handsomely and will never treat you badly!”

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【Ding! 】

【Trigger Secret Realm Side Quest! 】

【Quest Name: Xinda’s Hammer! 】

【Quest Details:……】

【Quest Objective: Clear “Dark Thunder Ruin,” with a probability of obtaining “Xinda’s Hammer.” 】

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Another side quest triggered.

The Arad Continent has a very large quest system.

It can be divided into main quests, side quests, activity quests, etc.

Among them, the main quests are naturally the main story of DNF, which can promote the development and changes of the world plot.

Side quests are very large.

Qi Ji collected most of the original quests.

And added a lot of original side quests and daily quests.

This not only can enrich the worldview shaping and fun, he can also, according to the current demand for materials, essence souls, and equipment in the territory, take the initiative to guide the adventurers to grind through quests.

For example.

The territory is short of essence souls.

He will then launch quests to let adventurers challenge the Return to Truth Mode, so as to increase the probability of dropping the Arad essence souls.

And these quests can generally also get gold coins, materials, equipment rewards, or gain goodwill with special characters, laying the groundwork for subsequent hidden plots, and most of them can bring very good positive feedback to adventurers.

“Leave it to me!”

Visarous was full of confidence.

He was going to adventure in the Dark Thunder Ruin anyway.

It’s also convenient to take on a side quest at this moment.

A few minutes later.

Gran Forest entrance.

Hundreds of adventurers gathered here.

At the entrance of each dungeon area, adventurers can see the projections of adventurers from other times and spaces, and at this moment, they can see that there are hundreds of them densely packed.

But because they are not in the same time and space.

So they can only see the general contours, and cannot touch and interact.

Above the chat screen.

All kinds of information is constantly scrolling.

Luke: “Recruiting equipment, recruiting materials, also undertaking to take people through the picture below Grahka, price 500 to 1000 per person, those in need, please look for the Howling Tooth Adventurer Team!”

Wool Warrior: “Flame Grahka three missing one, level 15 or above, private me!”

Cat Mengmeng: “Dark Thunder Ruin pioneering looking for group!”

“……”

It’s really lively!

Visarous formed a team with Black Stone Hammer King, Angry Little Chicken, and Nancy Liya, and the moment they established contact with each other, they immediately appeared from the state of transparent people.

In this way, not only can they communicate on the chat screen.

They can also communicate face to face.

Black Stone Hammer King: “Are you all ready? According to the latest intelligence, ice attribute attacks are a great threat in the Dark Thunder Ruin, so I prepared some ice resistance potions, let’s share them.”

Nancy Liya: “Thank you!”

Angry Little Chicken couldn’t wait: “I can’t wait, let’s go in quickly, I still want to get the first kill!”

Black Stone Hammer King, as the captain, walked into the entrance of the Gran Forest map, and this entrance presents a vortex shape, which can only be seen by adventurers. When they walk in, they enter the interface of selecting a dungeon.

A bird’s-eye view map of Gran Forest appeared before their eyes.

This forest is very large, and currently, Dark Woods, Thunder Ruin, Poisonous Dark Woods, Frost Grahka, Grahka, and Flame Grahka have been unlocked.

The six dungeons are distributed in different areas of Gran Forest.

Although these areas are interconnected within the forest, adventurers have activity range restrictions when challenging the Secret Realm. They can see other areas from afar but cannot cross the boundary.

Besides the six dungeons at this moment.

Another “Dark Thunder Ruin” appeared.

Judging from the position on the bird’s-eye view map, its position is located in the deepest part of Gran Forest, which is a small area of rotten black forest. It’s not difficult to see that it must contain some secrets.

Selection complete!

Officially entering!

Gaa gaa gaa!

In the crow’s cawing.

Four adventurers opened their eyes.

They are already in a silent and gloomy dense forest.

Most of the plants here are withered, the air is extremely cold, and there are many places similar to tombs between the ruins of a large fire, and there are many skeletons directly exposed to the outside.

Gloomy.

Eerie.

Angry Little Chicken: “This is the Dark Thunder Ruin? Why does it look like a mass grave?”

Black Stone Hammer King explained: “The Dark Thunder Ruin is located in the deepest part of Gran Forest. It is said that this was once the town and home of the Elven Race of Gran Forest, which was destroyed in the disaster of the Gran Fire several years ago.”

Angry Little Chicken: “What about those Elves?”

Nancy Liya looked regretful: “Almost all of them are gone. In order to repair the damaged Great Magic Array, most of the Elves paid the price of their lives, and this should be their graveyard.”

Black Stone Hammer King: “That’s right, no one has lived here for a long time, and I don’t know why it has become like this.”

Visarous: “I learned a saying called ‘transfer phenomenon’ from Seria. Mysterious transfer phenomena often appear on the Arad Continent in recent years, which may be a kind of evil power being transferred here, causing mutations.”

Angry Little Chicken scratched his head: “Transfer phenomenon? What’s that?”

“This is a strange disaster in Arad recently.”

Black Stone Hammer King explained: “As the name suggests, it is that people, monsters, or even pure energy, diseases, and even the legendary Apostles, are transferred from one place to another without warning, causing various unpredictable disasters and causing destruction.”

Visarous: “Many abnormalities on the Arad Continent are currently caused by transfer phenomena. The most famous is the Bellowing Cave incident several years ago.”

Bellowing Cave.

Located near the Elven Defense Line.

The Elven Defense Line mainly defends against the Delos Empire.

So this place is actually the border between the Duchy and the Empire.

It is said that a series of strange phenomena appeared near the Bellowing Cave outside the defense line at that time.

The Delos Empire suspected that the Belmar Republic was playing tricks, so they sent several investigation teams to investigate one after another, and after paying a huge price, they found out that it was the legendary fifth Apostle, “The Lurker” Shirok, who was transferred into it and fell into madness.

In order to prevent the Apostle from continuing to get out of control and causing disasters.

The Delos Empire sent a large number of experts, plus the Four Great Swordsmen, famous in Arad, to jointly encircle and annihilate them. In the end, they paid an extremely painful price to eliminate Shirok. This battle became an epic battle sung by many bards.

Visarous: “Humph, this matter is by no means a natural disaster, there must be someone behind the transfer phenomenon, and I don’t know what his ultimate goal is, what kind of unspeakable secret he has.”

Nancy Liya: “We will find out sooner or later, starting with the Dark Thunder Ruin!”

Without further ado.

Officially start the action.

The four adventurers didn’t take long to act.

They felt the aura of undead and the Wail.

Zombies in tattered clothes and with fierce faces stood up from the forest graveyard.

“Sure enough, they are undead!”

“Be careful, they are all level 18 and 19 monsters, I’m afraid it will be difficult to deal with!”

“……”

The zombies that appeared in Thunder Ruin have two types, one is the zombie with green skin, and the other is the zombie with blood-red skin.

Both types of zombies are thick-skinned and tough, and difficult to injure with swords and spears.

The former moves faster and has stronger physical strength. One claw can easily tear steel, and it also comes with corpse poison.

The latter, although less mobile and doesn’t use corpse poison attacks, has dark attribute magic, which can condense black energy balls, thus dealing attacks to adventurers from a long distance and posing a greater threat.

“Look at my power!”

The Gunner Nancy Liya stood out, first throwing several grenades to blow up the front row zombies, then conjuring a machine gun out of thin air, and suppressing the corpse horde with bullets.

Da da da!

Da da da!

The firepower of the machine gun was very fierce, and under the dense bullet coverage, several stone pillars of the ruins were soon riddled with holes, a large number of stone tombstones were destroyed, and the corpse horde was also suppressed and forced to retreat again and again, making it difficult to approach.

The bullets cannot tear the zombies’ bodies.

Each zombie is not only thick-skinned and tough, but also entangled with a strong aura of undead, enough to offset most of the damage. Even if damage is caused, as long as the health bar is not exhausted, it will be automatically repaired instantly.

“Roar!”

Two blood-red zombies exploded with black energy from their ten fingers, instantly condensing an energy ball and attacking Nancy Liya, while several green ones launched a flanking attack from the left and right.

Not good!

Black Stone Hammer King and Visarous launched a Ghost Slash to counter the energy ball, and the two dark attribute energies collided and offset the attack, while the Fighter Angry Little Chicken launched a Whirlwind Leg plus a series of combos to repel the approaching green zombies.

Mountain-Crushing Strike!

Cross Slash!

Triple Slash!

Visarous held a clumsy but powerful specially made infantry greatsword, and killed into the zombie group. With the help of powerful consecutive slashes, he instantly slashed several zombies into rotten flesh that was torn and broken.

Nancy Liya stopped the extreme gun sweeping and switched to the flamethrower to suppress it again.

Black Stone Hammer King and Angry Little Chicken also went all out.

Although these dozen or so zombies were thick-skinned and tough, and their health bars were also very long, they eventually couldn’t withstand the full-force attack of the four adventurers, and were all annihilated in just five minutes.

Angry Little Chicken laughed: “Although they have some skills, but we four joined forces, it’s not a problem!”

Black Stone Hammer King: “Don’t be careless, it’s getting colder and colder around here, this place can’t stay for long, we must find the leader as soon as possible.”

Nancy Liya: “Yes, these zombies are too difficult to fight, the consumption caused is too high!

The dungeon of the Arad Continent does not have rooms and grid maps as a guide, and each time the adventurer enters a dungeon area is equivalent to being thrown into a completely open free exploration area.

Whether it’s possible to quickly find the BOSS.

Is the key to whether it is possible to quickly clear the dungeon.

The problem is that “Dark Thunder Ruin” has just been discovered.

Everyone is not familiar with the terrain here, how can they judge the position of the BOSS? In fact, even if it is a map that has been brushed many times, the monster positions and distribution will also change each time they enter.

“Undead mostly prefer cold and dislike heat.”

Visarous suggested according to his understanding of the undead: “There must be a source for the cold qi in this place, as long as we follow the direction of the cold qi to find, we will surely find the leader.”

Makes sense!

The four immediately took action.

Along the way, they also found many Cat Demons, zombies, and various swamps, jungles, and poisonous flowers.

In addition, they found many buildings and traces of the Elven Race of Gran Forest in the dense forest. Not many years ago, this was still the home of the Elven Race, and now most of the Elves have died and are buried in this land.

Probably harboring resentment.

So they were transformed into zombies by evil energy.

The more the adventurers go deeper into the Dark Thunder Ruin, the more they feel the cold air penetrating the bones, and they have all obtained the negative BUFF of slowness. On the contrary, the zombies encountered are becoming more and more flexible and stronger.

There are many elite zombies among them.

These elite zombies should have been strong Elves before, so the zombies they transformed into are also more powerful than other zombies, and the health bar is two or three times that of other zombies.

Finally, after a period of bitter battle.

The four adventurers finally found the source of cold air and the power of undead.

This is a zombie that is different from the others, his face is more fierce than ordinary zombies, his blue skin is covered with ice crystals, his eyes are jumping with blue ghost fire, and the ground is frozen wherever he goes.

【Leader: Necromancer Bone Prison 】, Second Rank Five-Star Unit, Secret Realm Level 20…

“Finally found it!”

“It seems that we are lucky!”

“Defeat it quickly, otherwise, as time goes on, the impact of the cold air we receive will become more and more serious!”

“……”

The four adventurers decisively took a pre-prepared ice resistance potion, which could make them get stronger ice resistance within a short period of time, thereby reducing some ice attribute damage and negative effects.

“Humans… Damn humans… I want revenge… Revenge!”

Bone Prison’s eyes, with blue ghost fire, jumped more and more violently.

A surge of ice energy erupted from under his feet.

It instantly enveloped dozens of meters around, causing a large area of grass and jungle, plus Visarous and Black Stone Hammer King, who were attempting to approach, to be frozen and covered in thick ice.

Angry Little Chicken exclaimed: “Damn it! So fierce! This guy has some skills!”

Bone Prison quickly rushed up and was about to attack the Ghost Swordsman who had turned into an ice sculpture.

“Chicken, stop it quickly!”

“Alright!”

Angry Little Chicken, not daring to be careless, directly jumped up, and stepped on Bone Prison with an Eagle Stomp in mid-air, then grabbed the other party’s attempt to back-slam, but at the moment the hands touched the zombie, a deadly coldness struck.

Causing Angry Little Chicken’s hands to freeze into ice.

“Not good!”

Angry Little Chicken immediately changed his strategy, evading Bone Prison’s cold ice claws, and gave a powerful low kick, first making him lose his balance, and then followed with a quick and powerful front kick to kick him away.

“Spirit Bomb!”

She accumulated spiritual energy and shattered the ice on her hands, and finally released a white spiritual energy bullet, hitting the zombie in mid-air, causing the light attribute attack of restraint effect, and blasting it away more than ten meters away on the spot.

Although this series of attacks was beautiful.

But the damage caused to Bone Prison was very limited.

This guy’s health bar is very thick, and it’s difficult to win by relying on one person. Not to mention the consumption of stamina and magic power, just the cold qi emanating from this monster’s body is hard to withstand.

Fortunately, it was at this moment.

With the help of Nancy Liya’s flamethrower.

The two Ghost Swordsmen broke free from the ice.

Visarous said in a deep voice: “This undead’s large-area ice-sealing secret art is very powerful, and it will be over if the four of us get hit at the same time… but this force mainly relies on the ground for conduction, so it can be evaded by jumping in a way that stays in the air.”

“Understood!”

“Attack together!”

This battle must be a quick battle.

Nancy Liya took out the Gatling machine gun again for long-range suppression, while the two Ghost Swordsmen and one Fighter took turns outputting. Whenever they couldn’t stand the cold qi entering the body, they would withdraw, repeating the battle in this way.

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200!

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198!

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245!

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Although Bone Prison was very powerful, the adventurers cooperated tacitly and gradually found the pattern and rhythm. Finally, after a period of hard and difficult battle, they finally succeeded in defeating this BOSS.

“We won!”

“Hahaha, great, we cleared it in one go!”

“Fortunately, we have four people, otherwise, it wouldn’t be easy to win this guy!”

“This Bone Prison’s ability is quite interesting. Although it’s a Second Rank unit, it should be of rare quality. I must play the Return to Truth Mode when my equipment is better to grind the essence soul out!”

“……”

It was time to settle the reward.

The exciting moment of flipping cards.

【Your level has increased! 】

Visarous gained a sum of experience, which happened to help him break through the level.

Upgraded from level 17 to level 18.

At the same time, three treasure chests appeared.

One of them is the basic clear reward, which can be obtained without any cost or condition.

Another two treasure chests, one is a paid treasure chest, you need to pay a fee to open it, and you can get an extra reward.

As for the third treasure chest?

The other three didn’t have it, only Visarous had it.

This is because Visarous took on the quest related to this area.

This special treasure chest is the quest treasure chest, and there is a certain probability of brushing out the props or materials needed for the quest.

First, open the basic treasure chest.

【You obtained “Ancient Elf Ring （Purple）”! 】

Another purple one!

【Ancient Elf Ring】, level 13 equipment, Strength +9, Intelligence +9, Magic Defense +240, Health upper limit +50, Magic Power upper limit +20, restores 9 points of Magic Power per minute.

A ring that is universal for all professions, the attributes are very good.

Visarous was very satisfied, and decided to continue to work hard. He paid 2800 Arad gold coins, and opened the paid treasure chest again, and as a result, he only got 1500 gold coins, plus a blue-quality cloth armor top.

Overall, it was a small profit, not bad.

But it obviously didn’t bring much surprise.

Finally, the quest treasure chest was opened.

【You obtained “Xinda’s Hammer”! 】

Visarous was energized again. This is the item to be found for the side quest.

The quest props that need to be collected in the Arad Continent are all obtained through the related treasure chests when clearing the game.

This is also a drop rate. Sometimes, with good luck, it will come out in one go, and sometimes it takes a lot of exploration to brush out and complete the quest.

Visarous’s luck was good this time, so he brushed out the things in one go and could directly complete the side quest.

And at this moment.

Angry Little Chicken suddenly exclaimed.

Nancy Liya asked: “Chicken, what’s wrong, what did you open?”

Angry Little Chicken: “I opened a piece of clothing called ‘Fan Wind Clothes’. How come the quality of this equipment is pink, which I’ve never seen before?”

What’s going on?

The pink quality?

Obviously, up to now, the best quality equipment brushed out on the Arad Continent is the purple equipment, and the adventurers haven’t seen the pink equipment yet!

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（PS: The last two days of this month! Asking for a wave of monthly tickets! ）